I’ve absolutely hated advertising as long as I can remember. Even as a child when I read magazines I’d fold over or cut out advertisements, making sure not to look straight at them. I used to cut and rip the labels off clothing because I considered them advertising. As for TV, I haven’t watched any for over a decade but back when I did I either recorded and fast forwarded past the commercials, or muted the commercials while averting my eyes from the screen. And nowadays I use adblockers on the net.
As an aside one thing I did notice over years of cutting the commercials out of shows was how over time the shows kept getting shorter and the commercials got more and more playtime instead. And repeats of old shows were missing bits and pieces I recall seeing originally, presumably to make room for the expanded commercials.
Stick your fingers in your eyes and not look at the screen; which yes I used to do before VCRs and mute buttons. Because staring into space was less irritating than the commercials.